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2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Nectoux

Since the 1990s, when the successful cultural-led urban renewal of cities like Bilbao and Glasgow held out the promise that peripheral cities, no less than world cities, could capitalise on culture, much urban cultural strategic planning has sought to gain global attention and achieve socio-economic growth. Such planning has produced mixed results in granting citizens access and production to their city. This essay looks at strategies in multicultural urban areas that lie at the margin of global cities, focusing on the City of Parramatta.


Author(s):  
Andrea Oldani

One of the most predictable implications of photography consists of the ability to fix some images returning them in a variable timeframe for the observation. In all the major world cities, it is common to incur in some book where recent photos are compared to old ones searching the same point of view in order to make the comparison more accurate and stimulate the critical ability of the observer. An exercise that sometimes stimulates a sort of regret for the past, pointing out a diffused excess of nostalgia for times gone by. Nevertheless, the reality and meaning of modern city images are not always so prosaic. What happens when photographs are evocative of a reality that is completely lost in the collective imaginary even though it still exists and functions, despite being forgotten and buried in the depths of the city? This is the case of very few pictures capable of telling the story of a city, Milan, and its only “real” river, the Olona, whose waters, humiliated and rejected, continue to flow in total amnesia. It is a different story when photography does not have the role of nourishing nostalgia, but the power to make visible and explain the variation of a presence and its progressive obliteration. Some pictures testify to the passage from the bucolic amenity of the river and its banks in a pre-urban context to a muscular urban infrastructure. A rigid channelized river, shown with confidence, is trying to keep its presence, until the moment of its inevitable decline and disappearance. It is in these images that the possibility of reconsidering the Olona as a part of the new project for the city lies.


Author(s):  
Kostiantyn Niemets ◽  
Kateryna Kravchenko ◽  
Yurii Kandyba ◽  
Pavlo Kobylin ◽  
Cezar Morar

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
Jean Gottmann
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2021 ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Patrick Geddes
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2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-332
Author(s):  
Maan Mohie Mohammd Shareef

The sustainable increasing in population coincided with continuous, constructional expansion of cites. It was the beginning of appearing the unlawful seizing of many areas in second world cities and the Iraqi cities in particular. thus it was very difficult for the mentioned cities to stand in front of these problems Al-Baghdadi city is also with in those cities that suffers from the illegal takings of many lands. The study aims to look over these unlawful misappropriating and to find out the reasons which stand behind this case and its locative distribution. The searcher depends on fielding study in checking these problem, through looking for many illegal taking which are not registered in Al-Baghdadi municipal. This study consists of three chapters, the first one is to know the meaning of misappropriating and its causes. The second chapter deals with the qualitative and locative circulation of these illegal behaviors and its affection on the constructional shape of the cites. While the third chapter considers the negative effects of this problem on the towns. This study gives many maps show these unlawful seizing in all districts in addition it gives the final conclusions and recommendation for this problem. Hopefully this study might be approved by all officials and members of governmental people. The study revealed that the abuses appeared clearly after 2007 due to the lack of security, the absence of the law and the difficulty of implementing it with the weakness of the regulatory bodies and the flexibility of some laws that gave the transgressor the right to own property as a reality that led to the exacerbation of the situation of abuses on the water, electricity, health and education services, as well as the abuses on land and streets and green areas.


2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-335
Author(s):  
Jonathan Reades ◽  
Martin Crookston

This contribution looks at how great-city working life and business are increasingly oriented towards the activities in high-added-value trades and 'opaque' markets, where face-to-face interactions are still a vital part of what they offer. It argues that whilst the pandemic has undoubtedly hit hard, its longer-term impacts should not be over-stressed: the world cities look set for continued dominance, centrality and scale will still be vital for the smaller conurbations, and the prospects for more peripheral locations may not be as positive as proponents of ex-urban flight might anticipate.


2021 ◽  
pp. 196-220
Author(s):  
Alastair M. Morrison ◽  
Cristina Maxim
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2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-165
Author(s):  
Ruth Glynn

This Special Issue explores how cultural production and practice understand and articulate the changing relationship between city and nation, in the light of globalization and the increasing freedom of cities to build, brand and promote themselves independent of the nation state. The Introduction maps the scholarship pertaining to cultural engagements with city and nation, highlighting their separation into two distinct spheres. It reviews the existing scholarship on city‐nation relations in the field of urban studies (where discussion has centred on the emergence of ‘world cities’ and their implications for nation states) and in urban history. It locates in Vivian Bickford-Smith’s work on cities and nationalism in South Africa a rich source of inspiration for the volume’s complementary study of the role played by cultural production and practice in articulating, shaping and negotiating understandings of city and nation in contemporary Europe. It closes with an overview of the contributing articles.


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